Reconciliation is an iterative process. The tasks are neither linear nor mutually exclusive, and they are often cyclical in nature as our journey into reconciliation draws us ever deeper into confrontation with the ugliness of racism and the hidden ways in which it has infected our psyches, our relationships, and our world. Genuine efforts toward racial reconciliation are at once spiritual, political, social, and psychological. They are rarely comfortable; more often than not, they are painful. And the seeming intractability of racism within our world makes reconciliation feel more like
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